Example sentences of "[art] [adj] day [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As we all know , it is a matter of only a few weeks before the joyous day when the boot will be on the other foot and the right hon. Gentleman will be sitting on the Opposition Front Bench making speeches on timetable motions .
2 These windy periods are interspersed with breaks from 4 to 8 days when regular sea breezes blow into the gulf at force 2 to 3 , with the odd day when the wind fails .
3 Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills .
4 In th i in the old days when a firm would come along and pack everything , then they said that , and that was quite true , that they would pack everything and then they would be responsible if damage was done .
5 One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’
6 It has remained in the temple ever since , and is blown three times on the anniversary of the death of Sigismund as a solemn reminder of the dark days when the Empire was ravaged by Orcs and Altdorf was almost destroyed .
7 The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation .
8 It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship .
9 They were released the following day when a crowd of 4000 people gathered outside the police station .
10 The previous day also the factory was evacuated after a bomb scare .
11 Davies , an arable crop specialist , is one of a team of four ICI Fertilizer experts offering ‘ Nitram ’ users a free computer service which pinpoints the exact day when a farmer should apply his product in order that the crop can best use the nitrogen .
12 Even in the present day when a wife may own part of the matrimonial home and may have a separate job , Scott LJ felt that the tendency was for business decisions to be left to the husband and the main domestic responsibilities to the wife .
13 It has miraculously survived to the present day when the hunt has become a social ritual , demanding special dress and even to the ‘ blooding ’ of the tyro , an obvious piece of symbolism .
14 His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months .
15 This was meant to be the happy day when a group of volunteers from Berkeley , brought 40 children from the war in Bosnia , to the safety of Gloucestershire .
16 Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted .
17 Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted .
18 And being with Gittel was like — oh , I do n't know the right words-like the first day when the sun turns warm enough to start the ice melting off the eaves .
19 Her plans were overthrown the first day when the president requested that she should be chaplain .
20 It spells out categorically that the golden days when the Government could cut taxes and repay debt while financing its economic policies by taxing North Sea oil and selling state assets have gone for ever .
21 I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office .
22 In fact everything was going to plan until the third day when the crowd got to him .
23 Further problems emerged the next day when a barium swallow ( Fig 1 ) .
24 I usually wait until the next day when the painting is thoroughly dry , when it will accept the light colour perfectly .
25 Sometimes when it is really cold , and it rains heavily all day long , some of the horses that we normally stable overnight are kept in longer , and may not be put out in the paddock until the next day when the rain has stopped .
26 A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch .
27 A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker .
28 Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week .
29 Todays toil to lower the level of the brook takes a bitmore than one man and his dog , but the necessary speed of the work means thispiece of Georgian architecture will be hidden once more in a few days when the brook 's allowed to flow through here again .
30 Before the patient left St Mary 's Hospital , a leading article headed ‘ Penicillium ’ appeared in The Times and a few days later a letter was published from Sir Almroth Wright claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin .
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